If you missed the total solar eclipse, here are your next three chances to see one in the US

People
watch a partial solar eclipse from the roof deck at the 1 Hotel
Brooklyn Bridge on August 21, 2017 in the Brooklyn borough of New
York City. While New York City isn't in the path of today's total
solar eclipse, thousands of residents and tourists alike
participated in the excitement by using special glasses to view
the unique occurrence when nearly 72 percent of the sun is
covered by the moon during the partial
eclipse.Spencer
Platt/Getty

If you missed it, there are a few more chances to see one in the
US in your lifetime.

In the next three decades, three more total solar eclipses will
pass over areas of the country: on April 8,
2024, visible from Texas to Maine; on August
23, 2044 in Montana and
partially in North Dakota; and on August 12, 2045,
from northern California to Florida.

The path of totality for the next solar eclipse in the US, in
2024, will stretch approximately
123 miles wide, about twice the size of the
eclipse in 2017.

A total solar
eclipse is a phenomenon that occurs when
the moon passes between Earth and
the sun, and appears to cover the latter.

The two other types of eclipses are annular and
partial. In Earth's history, there have
been some
3 billion solar eclipses in the US alone, though some
were partial rather than total.